Re: Vintage Apple II commercial software and US law

[geneb@deltasoft.com (Gene)]

Steven Lichter <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote:
> Gene wrote:
>> Steven Lichter <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> tell that to the guy in Mass that was offering GBBS on his site!!!  He 
>>> leaned just how nasty that the Software Publishers ASSoc. can get.
>>>
>> 
>> Steven, would you consider selling it again since you forbid copies on
>> abandonware sites?  I'd like a copy myself and I'm willing to pay for it.
>> 
>> g.
>> 
> Right now the program has some problems with it because of the year.  I 
> started to work on it a few years ago, but then got really busy with 
> other things.  I have someone working on the 1999/2000 problem now, the 
> big problem is most of the date data was hard coded and he is having to 
> go over each line of code in every segment, he is also just doing it in 
> spare time. The other problem is the only copies I could fine were my 
> masters and those are really modified.  I think I have copies on another 
> H/D and compress versions of the masters.  When this is done I plan on 
> making them available to Sysops who ran GBBS in the past as an update 
> plus selling to those who want it. I also finally got a link to work 
> between GBBS and my Mac, so that it could be called from the net.  Right 
> now I'm on an overseas job and am testing th link  to see how it is 
> working, right now I have lost it 5 times so it is not stable, when I 
> get back I'm going to get a better link.  This all takes time and money, 
> and there is not a real demand right now for a BBS program, like there 
> is for games and such.
>

You might want to contact those former GBBS sysops and see if they've got
any unmodified masters as well.  Please make some kind of loud annoucement
when you're ready to sell it again.  My money and I will wait patiently. :)

g.